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Big, rich and paranoid, they have reams of data to help them spot and buy young firms that might challenge them It's not easy getting in the mud with the elephants.
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As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information. Goin' down the only road I've ever known.
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Microsoft’s recent release of Git Virtual File System (GVFS), their open source plugin that allows Git to handle terabyte-sized repositories has not been without controversy. and I feel fiinnnneee~
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git - noun - an unpleasant or contemptible person
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I have a new product called WINDOWS 10. "Well, If Naming Doesn't Overtly Warrant Suing" version 10. I'm sure Mickeysoft won't have any issues with this.
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Emacs 26.1 was recently released. As you would expect from a major release, it comes with lots of new goodies. 42 years old and still tickin'
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While the amount of data about me may not have caused harm in my life yet–as far as I know–I don’t want to be the victim of monopolistic internet oligarchs as they continue to cash in on surveillance-based business models. What’s a concerned citizen of the internet to do? Here’s one no-brainer: Stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox. But Chrome has seen me naked and assures me it will love me for me -- for a price.
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It's ironic that this is hosted on a site that collects analytics used for advertising "and other purposes".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've long suspected that CodeProject is an extension of the Canadian intelligence agencies.
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Indeed, and I'm not sure whether implied acceptance from closing the cookie pop-up is within either the letter or the spirit of GDPR.
I won't be reading anything on there until they sort their attitude out and I suspect that I'm far from alone in that.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world. We all go a little mad sometimes.
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Sean Ewington wrote: We all go a little mad sometimes. As far as it doesn't go psychopath...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You train a neural net with negative images, and lo and behold, negative answers. It is the easiest way of making money: "research".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Your smartphone is probably the computer you rely on most throughout the day. But Intel thinks there's still a place for PCs. Ancient Aliens meme: "It's not 'PC' anymore. It's personal contribution platform."
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Impersonal computers?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Your smartphone is probably the computer you rely on most throughout the day Not me
Sean Ewington wrote: But Intel thinks there's still a place for PCs. Of course... under my desk
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Not for me if I have a choice, but I am learning to use the phone more since no personal computer at work, so use phone. Now I get news and youtube on my phone. Before this I used my laptop. It does not work as well.
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Apparently it was just a bug that utterly erased tablets off Google’s Android sites in many languages and localities, and the tablet section has now returned, but for awhile it looked like Google has quietly crept out of the tablet business. This is what happens when you release an obituary about someone who didn't die.
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Ever had the nagging suspicion that your car's manufacturer was charging outrageous prices for parts simply because it could? Software might be to blame. Now hold on a minute, are you telling me NOT to repair my car at the dealership?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Now hold on a minute, are you telling me NOT to repair my car at the dst ealership?
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. It's the end of the world as we know it~
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Try: "all the way."
NY Times, June 3, 2018: [^] "Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends"Quote: Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing, The New York Times found.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Oh Gosh! Now I am really surprised!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Does not seem to affect Facebook stock. As far as I can tell, people are not using Facebook as much yet the stock keeps soaring. It is pretty scary considering that the whole stock market is based on BS. When it finally crashes it will be catastrophic. Maybe Climate Change will kill us sooner so we will not have to worry about the Rich killing the world economy.
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Majority of Facebook's users are too addicted to drop it.
Next scandal from their side might be Instagram related.
modified 7-Jun-18 7:05am.
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